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terrorism definition | Dictionary.com

Daily Kos found this 10/25/2008 on dictionary.reference.com

1795, in specific sense of "government intimidation during the Reign of Terror in France" (1793-July 1794), from Fr. terrorisme (1798), from L. terror (see terror ). "If the basis of a popular government in peacetime is virtue, its basis in a time of revolution is virtue and terror -- virtue, ...